Preventing “Mortgage Default Crisis: The Sequel”
Yesterday I wrote about the need for new underwriting standards at Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to steer a careful course between two rocks: The risk to the...
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Now that they're ours, what do we do with Freddie and Fannie? Last weekend, the federal government essentially took over control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
Government Expropriates Private Corporations and Nobody Screams
In Saving Energy, Growing Jobs (published in 2007 by Bay Tree Publishing ) I observed that there is a strong connection between efforts to stop climate change...
Real Economic Stimulus with Energy Efficiency
Oil prices are dropping to below $115 a barrel, so I guess the imperative to reduce our consumption soon will go away as well. That is what happened after the...
What’ll it take to get pro-business conservatives and environmentalists into real dialogue?
In his July 28 opinion piece for Salon , Joe Romm argues that energy efficiency may allow the nation to avoid the construction of any more polluting power...
Newsflash! Environmentalist sees hope in problem-solving abilities of lawful, free-market economies
In his Washington Post column of this morning, Charles Krauthammer does a very deft job of implying, without actually saying, that environmentalists are really...